I bring a broad, integrative approach to healing and inner work, informed by years of training, personal practice, and a deep foundation in creative work. I have been a multidisciplinary artist for 20 years, working primarily with photography, but also, writing, sculpture, dance, and painting. My creative background shapes how I listen, attune, and respond in all the work I offer, from client sessions to retreats.

As a professionally registered somatic practitioner, I have been in private practice for nearly seven years. I have completed extensive training in somatic therapy, as well as training in Internal Family Systems (IFS), including a Somatic IFS certifcation. These approaches form a core foundation of the healing work I offer in my client sessions.

I completed five years of training at the Eastwest Somatics Institute, where I studied somatic therapy and trauma-informed therapy approaches. This training included working with dreams and the imagination through embodied processes, engaging imagery and dream material through movement and direct felt experience. I also studied nervous system repatterning, somatic tracking and attunement, expressive arts healing, ecosomatics, and movement-based therapies.

I also studied at the Animas Valley Institute for three years, training as a Wild Mind Guide. There, I immersed myself in learning nature-based soul work, dream work, depth psychology, and shadow work. This training emphasized embodiment, creative expression, and ritual, helping people engage with the deeper layers of the soul and psyche, integrate fragmented parts of themselves, and uncover meaning and purpose through their connection to the natural world.

My background in mindfulness practice is extensive. I have studied at Spirit Rock Meditation Center and trained as a mindfulness meditation teacher, leading groups for almost a decade in sitting and walking meditation, as well as compassionate communication practices. I have attended fifteen silent meditation retreats. I hold three yoga teacher certifications and have taught yoga, mindful movement, and dance.

I am a seasoned naturalist and wilderness guide, and have guided people in wilderness settings, including facilitating ceremonial wilderness vigils—commonly known as vision quests— and retreats both individually and in groups.

I hold a Bachelor of Science in Anthropology from the University of Utah, where I focused on archaeology, and pursued a graduate degree in Human Evolutionary Ecology. My cross-cultural studies of Indigenous wisdom traditions include time spent learning from The Bushmen in the Kalahari Desert and with Australian Aboriginals.

Through my time working as an archaeologist and from ethnographic research, I developed a deep understanding of how many traditional cultures hold community, spirit, body, land, art, and ancestors as inseparable aspects of human well-being. This animistic worldview, in which humans exist within a living field of relationships that includes ancestors, spirit beings, animals, plants, and living landscapes, continues to inform and shape my work in the world.

Of all my teachers, the natural world has been the most enduring and beloved. I have lived on the edge of vast wilderness areas for most of my adult life, from the outskirts of Moab to many years living just one mile from Zion National Park in southern Utah.

My relationship with the land is expansive and ongoing, offering a steady source of guidance, solace, belonging, and wisdom.